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You'll have a hart time doing this, even if you have eSignal.
I takes a fair amount of time to get last piece of data for each stock,
before processing
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From: "soundscribe_studios" <jgalt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Automatic trading based on closing price
> I have a system where I need to place orders at the close (or very
> near the close) based on the closing price. Obviously, I can't know
> the closing price until it's closed, but I'm thinking a few minutes
> before the close would be fine. For example, if ABC's closing price is
> x% below the lower 10 day Bollinger band, buy.
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> I'd like to scan all of the stocks in my database (around 1200), check
> each one to see if it meets the criteria (based on the almost closing
> price) and then place the orders. My stock database is an EOD
> database, not real time, but I'll need to get one real-time quote for
> each ticker. I suppose I could write a program to get the realtime
> quote from IB and compare it with the trigger value, but don't know if
> it would be fast enough to scan through 1200 tickers in a few minutes.
> I can't use Yahoo as the delay would be too large.
>
> I'd rather not pay eSignal 50-100/month. Any other alternatives or
> ideas? Yahoo's current day only download would be perfect if it was
> real time and not delayed.
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> Thanks,
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> Dave
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